EP1138028A1 - Device for the collection of photographic material - Google Patents
Device for the collection of photographic materialInfo
- Publication number
- EP1138028A1 EP1138028A1 EP99971135A EP99971135A EP1138028A1 EP 1138028 A1 EP1138028 A1 EP 1138028A1 EP 99971135 A EP99971135 A EP 99971135A EP 99971135 A EP99971135 A EP 99971135A EP 1138028 A1 EP1138028 A1 EP 1138028A1
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- EP
- European Patent Office
- Prior art keywords
- envelope
- envelopes
- collection
- detection means
- photographic material
- Prior art date
- Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.)
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- G—PHYSICS
- G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
- G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
- G07F7/00—Mechanisms actuated by objects other than coins to free or to actuate vending, hiring, coin or paper currency dispensing or refunding apparatus
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- G—PHYSICS
- G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
- G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
- G07F17/00—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services
- G07F17/10—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services for means for safe-keeping of property, left temporarily, e.g. by fastening the property
- G07F17/12—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services for means for safe-keeping of property, left temporarily, e.g. by fastening the property comprising lockable containers, e.g. for accepting clothes to be cleaned
Definitions
- the invention concerns a device for the collection of photographic material as set forth in the main claim.
- the device according to the invention is suitable to be used in centralized collection points for photographic material of the self-service type in order to allow a more rational and at least partly automated management of said photographic material and to prevent users from defrauding the collection points.
- the state of the art includes commercial outlets, such as department stores or similar, in which there is a self- service system to collect photographic material.
- Said photographic material for example rolls of film, throwaway cameras, negatives to be reprinted and suchlike, is placed by the customer in appropriate envelopes on which the identification of the customer, and the information concerning the processing required, are written manually.
- This self-service system uses collection and distribution points which usually comprise a work plane used by the customers to fill in the empty envelopes, and one or more containers, equipped with introduction slits, into which the customers introduce the completed envelopes filled with the photographic material .
- the same identification code is written on the ticket and on the envelope, thus achieving a univocal correspondence between the tickets and envelopes delivered which facilitates and speeds up the subsequent delivery operations .
- the delivery may by assisted by a worker who, having received the ticket with the identification code, looks for and delivers the corresponding envelope to the customer; it may also be carried out by automatic distributors suitable to read and recognize the tickets, or other identification means, for example a card issued to the customer.
- the most sophisticated self-service collection points use electronic interface means, usually consisting of a processor, a monitor, a key board and a printer.
- the customers instead of writing the identification data and the type of processing required manually on the envelope, the customers input the information required through the key board.
- the data keyed in by the customers is then printed automatically on an adhesive label to be applied to the envelope, or directly printed on the envelope.
- a first purpose of the invention is to prevent users from defrauding the self-service collection points for photographic material .
- a second purpose of the invention is to simplify and make more rational the operations to collect and distribute the photographic material, allowing an at least partly automated management of the latter operations.
- a third purpose of the invention is to reduce to a minimum the manual operations of the worker, and the probability of mistakes made thereby, and also to allow the data concerning the photographic material collected to be continuously monitored.
- the device according to the invention comprises at least a containing mean, such as a sack, a box or similar, inside which the envelopes containing the photographic material can enter only if they have pre-determined requisites.
- a containing mean such as a sack, a box or similar
- Said requisites may comprise: verifying the identification code of the envelope and/or that the data compiled by the customer is correct, determining the weight of the envelope, verifying the presence of the photographic material and suchlike.
- the device according to the invention therefore, prevents users from carrying out any illicit actions to the detriment of the collection points and particularly from pretending to introduce the envelopes into the containing means or from introducing empty envelopes.
- the device comprises detection means located upstream of the collection zone and functionally associated with closing means suitable to allow or prevent the passage of the envelopes into said collection zone.
- the detection means are suitable to verify that the envelopes introduced by the users respect pre-determined and defined requisites .
- the collection device can be functionally associated with an electronic processing unit in order to allow an automated management of the photographic material collected.
- Fig. 1 shows a possible form of embodiment of a device according to the invention to collect photographic material
- Fig. 2 shows a particular application of the device as in Fig. 1
- Figs. 3a-3b show two different operating positions, partly in section, of the device as in Fig. 1.
- Fig. 1 shows a possible form of embodiment of a device 10 according to the invention to collect photographic material.
- the device 10 may be used autonomously or in association with electronic interface means, or again, as shown in Fig. 2 and as will be described in more detail hereafter, in association with automatic distributors 11.
- the device 10 according to the invention comprises, in its essential parts, a distribution unit 12 to distribute envelopes 13 to be filled and a unit 14 to collect the envelopes 13 which have been filled in by customers with their own identification data and with the data concerning the processing requested.
- the envelopes 13 are filled with the photographic material, such as rolls of film, negatives to be reprinted, throw away cameras etc., to be sent to a photographic processing laboratory.
- the photographic material such as rolls of film, negatives to be reprinted, throw away cameras etc.
- the distribution unit 14 is enclosed and protected by a lower containing structure 10b which defines at the upper part a plane 110b which can be used by the customers as a surface on which to fill in the envelopes 13.
- the collection unit 14 has a channel 17 to receive the envelopes 13, associated at the upper part with an introduction slit 18 made on the plane 110b, and at the lower part with a removable collection sack 19.
- the reception channel 17 cooperates at the lower part with a door 20 suitable to selectively assume a closed position 20a, as shown in Fig. 3a, which prevents the passage of the envelope 13 into the sack 19, or an open position 20b, as shown in Fig. 3b, which allows the envelope 13 to fall into the sack 19.
- the door 20 is substantially L-shaped and is suitable to oscillate around a pin 21 when activated by a rod 22 associated with a pulley 23 made to rotate by a motor 24.
- the open position 20b and the closed position 20a of the door 20 are determined by two micro switches 25 suitable to be alternately switched on or, according to a variant, switched off, with every passage of a planar segment made on the circumference of the pulley 23.
- the door 20 is commanded to open by a sensor unit 26 and a bar code reader 27.
- the sensor unit 26 detects the presence of the envelope 13 introduced by the user into the channel 17 and activates the bar code reader 27, which reads the identification code of the envelope, verifies it is valid and possibly identifies it has been correctly complied and, when recognition is complete, it commands the motor 24 to open the door 20.
- the sensor unit 26 When the sensor unit 26 no longer detects the presence of the envelope 13, it provides to activate the motor 24 to close the door 20 while waiting for another envelope 13.
- the sensor unit 26 comprises two rows of sensors one above the other, an upper row 26a located in the proximity of the introduction slit 18 and a lower row 26b located in the proximity of the door 20.
- the sensor unit 26 is suitable to detect not only the presence of the envelope 13 but also the direction of advance of the envelope 13 with respect to the reception channel 17.
- the identification code monitored by the reader 27 is memorized by a control unit, possibly with other data such as the date and time the envelope is handed in or suchlike, and then transmitted to the processing laboratories.
- All this data can be displayed by the control unit using a suitable enquiry software, so as to be able to answer any possible customer complaint immediately.
- the data may be transmitted to the processing laboratories by means of a modem or, as in the embodiment shown here, by a memorization unit 28 solid with the sack 19, which is then used in the processing laboratory to carry out the requested processing.
- weighing means 29 are associated with the reception channel 17, for example a load cell, suitable to verify the presence or absence of the photographic material inside the envelope 13.
- the reader 27 is of the type suitable to recognize the presence of objects inside the envelope 13 and therefore does not activate the opening of the door 20 if it detects the presence of an empty envelope
- a variant of the invention provides that the receipt ticket is issued by the collection device 10 only after the procedure of unloading the envelope 13 into the sack 19 is completed.
- the aforesaid control unit may be that of the automatic distributor 11.
- the customer is issued with a defined individual recognition means, such as a magnetic identification card, with a microchip, with a bar code or another type.
- a defined individual recognition means such as a magnetic identification card, with a microchip, with a bar code or another type.
- the customer inserts his card into the appropriate slit in the distributor 11 and the envelope 13 into the channel 17 of the collection device 10.
- the control unit of the distributor 11 memorizes the identification code of the customer's card, and also the code on the envelope 13, thus determining a univocal match.
- the envelopes arriving from the processing laboratories and containing the processed photographic material are placed by a worker into the various cells of the automatic distributor 11 so as to determine a univocal correspondence between each cell and the envelope contained therein.
- the distributor 11 When the customer inserts his personal card,, into the slit of the distributor 11, the distributor 11 automatically selects the corresponding cell to allow the customer to remove the envelope containing the processed photographic material .
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- Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
- General Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
- Photographic Developing Apparatuses (AREA)
- Photographic Processing Devices Using Wet Methods (AREA)
- Projection-Type Copiers In General (AREA)
- Cash Registers Or Receiving Machines (AREA)
- Replacement Of Web Rolls (AREA)
- Refuse Receptacles (AREA)
Abstract
Description
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Applications Claiming Priority (4)
Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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ITDA980183U | 1998-10-22 | ||
ITUD980183 | 1998-10-22 | ||
IT1998UD000183A IT1302788B1 (en) | 1998-10-22 | 1998-10-22 | DEVICE FOR THE COLLECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHIC MATERIAL |
PCT/IB1999/001686 WO2000025280A1 (en) | 1998-10-22 | 1999-10-14 | Device for the collection of photographic material |
Publications (2)
Publication Number | Publication Date |
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EP1138028A1 true EP1138028A1 (en) | 2001-10-04 |
EP1138028B1 EP1138028B1 (en) | 2002-09-18 |
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Application Number | Title | Priority Date | Filing Date |
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EP99971135A Expired - Lifetime EP1138028B1 (en) | 1998-10-22 | 1999-10-14 | Device for the collection of photographic material |
Country Status (8)
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US (1) | US6543943B1 (en) |
EP (1) | EP1138028B1 (en) |
AT (1) | ATE224571T1 (en) |
AU (1) | AU5994399A (en) |
DE (1) | DE69903067T2 (en) |
ES (1) | ES2184524T3 (en) |
IT (1) | IT1302788B1 (en) |
WO (1) | WO2000025280A1 (en) |
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- 1999-10-14 WO PCT/IB1999/001686 patent/WO2000025280A1/en active IP Right Grant
- 1999-10-14 AU AU59943/99A patent/AU5994399A/en not_active Abandoned
- 1999-10-14 AT AT99971135T patent/ATE224571T1/en not_active IP Right Cessation
- 1999-10-14 EP EP99971135A patent/EP1138028B1/en not_active Expired - Lifetime
- 1999-10-14 ES ES99971135T patent/ES2184524T3/en not_active Expired - Lifetime
- 1999-10-14 DE DE69903067T patent/DE69903067T2/en not_active Expired - Fee Related
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CN112288953B (en) * | 2020-09-24 | 2021-11-12 | 中绅科技(广东)有限公司 | Control method for fast and stable selling of automatic ice cream vending machine with disposable cups |
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DE69903067D1 (en) | 2002-10-24 |
ITUD980183A1 (en) | 2000-04-22 |
WO2000025280A1 (en) | 2000-05-04 |
US6543943B1 (en) | 2003-04-08 |
ATE224571T1 (en) | 2002-10-15 |
ES2184524T3 (en) | 2003-04-01 |
EP1138028B1 (en) | 2002-09-18 |
DE69903067T2 (en) | 2003-06-05 |
AU5994399A (en) | 2000-05-15 |
IT1302788B1 (en) | 2000-09-29 |
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